U+1A63 "ᩣ" Tai Tham Vowel Sign Aa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A63 "ᩣ" Tai Tham Vowel Sign Aa is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which historically writes the Tai Yuan, Tai Lue, and Khün languages of Southeast Asia. This vowel sign modifies a consonant to represent a long "aa" sound, functioning as a dependent vowel that is placed to the right of the base consonant letter in the script's orthography. As part of the Unicode Tai Tham block, it supports the digital preservation and rendering of traditional Buddhist manuscripts and contemporary texts in these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A63
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Vowel Sign Aa
Block Tai Tham
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᩣ
HTML Hex Encoding ᩣ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA9 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A63
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A63
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a63

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Tai Tham
Script Extensions Tai Tham
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend